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The iPod & iTunes Handbook: The Complete Guide to the Portable Multimedia Revolution | 
| Author: Contel Bradford
Publisher: Atlantic Publishing Company
Category: Book
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 54899
Media: Paperback
Pages: 288
Number Of Items: 1
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Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 0.8
ISBN: 1601381220
Dewey Decimal Number: 006.5
EAN: 9781601381224
ASIN: 1601381220
Publication Date: April 20, 2008
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Since the debut of the iPod in October 2001 and the unveiling of iTunes in April 2003, Apple has revolutionized the digital music industry. The iPod has outsold all other digital music players, comprising over 70 percent of market sales. Recently, Apple announced that it had sold its one hundred millionth iPod, which makes it the best selling digital music player of all time. Apple sells a variety of iPod models, including the shuffle and the nano. The shuffle is offered in a 1 GB format, the nano is available in 2, 4, or 8 GB, while the video iPod comes equipped with 30GB or 80GB. These tiny, musical powerhouses have the ability to hold anywhere from 240 to 20,000 songs. That is a lot of music, but what if you do not have that many songs? What else can you do with your iPod? In addition to music, you can look at photos, watch videos of your favorite TV shows or movies, play games, and listen to audio books. The iPod & iTunes Handbook also contains many tips and tricks, including how to transfer music, photos, videos, and audiobooks to your iPod and vice versa, how to make playlists, how to convert video for the iPod, how to integrate your car, how to burn a CD in iTunes, how to sync your tunes, how to add album art, how to use all the features of iTunes, how use your iPod as a hard drive, how to share your iTunes music, and much more. In addition, this book provides you with information on buying accessories and software for your iPod, such as cases, chargers, docking stations, portable speakers, earphones, cables, headsets, and car kits. Furthermore, you will discover the best places to buy accessories for your iPod and the Web sites that have the best pointers and free add-ons. Whether you have an iPod or are planning on buying one, whether you have no idea how to use your iPod or think you have mastered it all, you will learn all there is to know about iPods and iTunes by reading this book.
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 Apple has revolutionized the digital music industry with its iPod September 3, 2008
Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Apple has revolutionized the digital music industry with its iPod and iTunes systems and now there are many different pods and players available. So how can a consumer tell which to buy and how to run and customize them? THE IPOD & ITUNES HANDBOOK tells how, showing how to create playlists, sync iPods to a computer, convert videos to play on an iPod, and more. It's a 'must' for any general-interest lending library and many an iPod owner.
A must-have for anyone new to iPods and iTunes August 14, 2008
Michelle Kerns
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is the perfect handbook for all iPod and iTunes users, from the absolute and utter novice to the hippest technology buff. Covering everything from the history of the iPod's development, to case studies of how people have successfully used iPods to further their careers, to how to use your iPod for PowerPoint presentation, its all here in a clear, easy-to-use and understandable format.
The first section of the book explains the history and development of the iPod, its meteoric rise in popularity, and the many manifestations the iPod has had along the way to becoming the world's number 1 selling digital music player and the forerunner of the portable multimedia revolution.
While fascinating, I suspect most readers will flip right past this section to the nuts and bolts of the book which begins in Section 2, The Basics of Your iPod. For initiates into the digital world, this section is solid gold: not only does Bradford cover how to use the click wheel and how to turn the iPod on and off, he explains in detail how to navigate the iPod's display menus and screens. Each submenu of the main menus are listed are discussed. Section 3, 4, and 5 explain iTunes--what it is, how it can be used and what you can do with it. You'll learn to how to use iTunes with an iPod or computer, how to backup music from your hard drive or CD, how to sync content from iTunes software to your iPod, and how to compile smart playlists and burn CDs.
The final sections of the book cover every aspect of working with iPod photo and iPod video, how to create your own podcasts, iPod games, and even includes an extensive list of iPod accessories. All of the instructions are written in a plain, numbered format and are light years better than the tiny booklet that comes with your iPod. In fact, this handbook is probably the best way to get the most out of your iPod and iTunes experience.
Interviewed by Contel Bradford for this fab book! July 16, 2008
Yvonne Perry (Nashville, TN)
A few months ago, I was interviewed about how I use my iPod. Of course, I use it for listening to music, but that is not the primary reason I got one. I wanted an iPod so I could listen to my writing podcast on the go.
I answered Contel's interview questions via email and thought no more of it. This week I went to my mailbox and found a book: The iPod & iTunes Handbook by Contel Bradford. At first, I thought it was a book from a guest who was asking to appear on my podcast. After opening the package I was confused for a moment. I had not had a recent query from the author of that book. Then, it dawned on me. This is the book that I gave an interview for. Not only did Contel give my full response, but book is an excellent resource for anyone who wants to learn more about using an iPod or downloading from iTunes.
I have a MacBook and a PC. One day I was using the PC and my husband was using the MacBook to download songs from iTunes. Later he wanted to transfer them to my iPod for a trip we were about to make. Big problem. Neither of us could figure out how to get the purchased songs from the Mac onto the iPod without erasing everything I already had on the iPod during the sync. Guess what? How to manually sync only certain songs is described on pages 76-77 in Contel's book!
From the basics of how to turn off or unfreeze your iPod to tips and tricks about changing the album art, this book contains it all. It even includes a detailed history of how the iPod and iTunes came into existence and the features available on each model.
I really appreciate the chance to be featured in the book along with many of my writing friends, but I also know I will be using this book as a much-needed reference manual.
 A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE ON iPOD and iTUNES July 9, 2008
Jerry Olasakinju
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Mr. Contel Bradford's The iPod and iTunes Handbook is a bold attempt at exploring the portable multimedia currently making waves in our world. The advent of iPod and iTunes has undoubtedly re-engineered the way we enjoy and exchange music, videos and other files.
The Handbook explicitly gives comprehensive information on iPod: which includes iPod history; how it works; viewing photos on iPod; playing audiobooks on iPod; leaving voice memos on iPod and other iPod functionalities and iPod accessories. Step-by-step instructions on iTunes installation, downloading and accessing are all presented in a way that it makes it easy for anyone to play and enjoy music and videos. You could find how to legally share music, and how you could rip or burn your CDs.
This Handbook should be a companion to anyone who cares about the enchantment of music. In it, there is a goldmine of practical information on multimedia in general.
Ipod and Itune Handbook June 25, 2008
Robert Michael David Minto (Queen Creek, AZ USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The way we listen to music has evolved over the years from great clunky phonographs that, whatever their charm to some people, forced listening to be a major operation and rigidly communal, all the way to the intimate, private, and portable iPod. The world is in love with iPods--small, streamlined, even stylish. But for some of us, those of us not members of the thumbs generation, for whom "backlight" brings to mind more of the theater than of a small cellphone or iPod screen, the job of managing this simple modern convenience remains all but impossible.
Our iPods come with manuals and "help" features with their software--but the more intricate, and sometimes even the most simple, operations remain opaque to some of us. What is a shuffle? How does one get a film from a DVD into an iPod? You can record on an iPod?! How does it work with iTunes?
In this extremely easy-to-follow book, these questions and many more are comprehensively answered. This book contains information for everyone--it assumes nothing, so that my Grandpa who still can't figure out how to turn his iPod on could profit just as much as my cousin, who uses hers every day but needs some advanced tips on getting the most out of it with the calendar and voice memo features. Divided into short chapters and prefaced by a clear and simple table of contents, this book is eminently navigable, useful as a reference work when you have an emergency--for example when your iPod freezes--but it is also incrementally written so that by reading it straight through you will not feel like you are reading the dictionary but like you are gradually learning a subject.
Even apart from these obvious benefits of utility, the beginning of this book--a history of the iPod--makes a good read. It's a success story, but not just that--it chronicles the rise of digital music and also the pitfalls of legality and music sharing that come together in the history of this device. The iPod is a fundamental part of our culture not merely as an icon and ubiquitous commodity, but as a rally point for some of the most violent debates about commerce, copyright and the music industry.
This book will open the world of iPod for the first time to some people and open it further for others. It is useful for almost anyone--and absolutely necessary for my Grandpa.
I give it a five.
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